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What an idiot.
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As a friend once pointed out when a mutual acquaintance embarrassed herself this way, "It’s called the World Wide Web.
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Which one? It is routine for careful employers to check the social media accounts of prospective hires for important jobs.
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My instincts tell me that Verzwyvelt is a Republican Trojan Horse.
His controversial tweets were screenshot and released by a right-wing blog in Washington, DC! with an accompanying “report” the very day he is hired?!? The report implys tit-for-tat for a current scandal in Governor Martinez’ campaign. Verzyvelt’s cheeky unrepentant explanations.
Mr. King, you have just been O’Keefed! Hogtie this SOB to your conniving opponent’s campaign fast!!
Verzwyvelt- isn’t that a made up word from Mad magazine?
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As in “That verschlunge Verzyvelt hosed my campaign!” - Perceptive of you.
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Yeah! Like “furshlugginer,” except “furshlugginer” isn’t made up.
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I know that now. But when you’re in junior high, who knows from Yiddish?
How naive we were back then. A friend and I got two-day lunch detentions for singing Mad’s “The Reefer Song” in the lunchline. I think the tune was “Jingle Bells”. At the time, my association with “reefer” was shorthand for “refrigerator”. I couldn’t understand what the fuss was all about; I thought it was because we were making too much noise.
Those halcyon, Eisenhower years! Good times!
Old white guy, end of story.
“My Twitter account was hacked!”
Yeah, that’ll work. Just ask Anthony Weiner.
The lesson here is that all the idiots putting racist, sexist and homophobic messages on their Facebook pages or Twitter accounts better have no ambition, because that shit will most definitely come back to haunt you.
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He’s not old.
He doesn’t look like he has a lot of room to talk about fat.
I’m assuming his campaign manager is 19?
Your instinct would be incorrect; Verzwyvelt has a long history of work for Democratic candidates, but, more importantly, the Republicans don’t need a Trojan Horse with King; he’s been a merely adequate Attorney General who constantly gets tagged as soft in the media, he’s about as charming as a wet sponge, he’s constantly talking about his father - who was easily our most beloved governor but who left office twenty years ago - he won the primary only because of family name recognition despite coming in dead last at the convention with only 10% of the votes, and his PR talent is frankly non-existent, if not downright self-destructive.
This doesn’t really hurt the AG in that Verzwyvelt came and went; no one will remember the incident for itself a month from now. However, it does damage him in two other ways: first, that he hired a campaign manager from out-of-state; the fact is that no one in the New Mexico Democratic Party actually wants to work for Gary King (Diane Denish had the same problem four years ago, albeit for different reasons), but the voters, especially up north, aren’t going to care that he had no other options because none of us would have taken the job. They’ll just remember he outsourced it.
Second, King can not afford to get tied to any more misogyny than that which he already has hanging about his neck; this is a man whose response to the women in the AG’s office pointing out they were being paid less than men junior to themselves was essentially, “I don’t care.” Unsurprisingly, they sued him, in a lawsuit that turned farcical when he blocked their attorney’s discovery rights and then tried to get that same attorney held in contempt when he just did an end run by getting the same information through the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act. Unsurprisingly, the governor’s reelection campaign has already sent out fliers with a man and woman, and the words, “Do you think his work is worth more than hers? Gary King did.”
Gary, unfortunately, has a spectacularly painful uphill battle, and victory is… unlikely.
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